AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas appeals court on Wednesday denied a request to consider whether to reverse Gov. Greg Abbott’s pardon of a man who was convicted of killing a Black Lives Matter demonstrator. The decision from the the all-Republican Court of Criminal Appeals on Wednesday at least temporarily blocked a prosecutor’s claims that […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden announced Wednesday that troops who were convicted under an old military policy criminalizing consensual gay sex would receive full pardons — a move that could restore their discharges from military service to an honorable status and pave the way for benefits. Potentially thousands of veterans are affected, but many […]
President Joe Biden is set to pardon thousands of veterans who were convicted under a military law that prohibited gay sex, his administration announced on Wednesday. The pardon will apply to service members convicted between 1951 and 2013 under Article 125 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, which criminalized sodomy and essentially banned gay […]
Sailors decorate the mess decks in observance of Pride month aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Jason Dunham in the Atlantic Ocean on June 16, 2022. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Theoplis Stewart II) WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden will pardon U.S. military veterans who were discharged or convicted under […]
Sailors decorate the mess decks in observance of Pride month aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Jason Dunham in the Atlantic Ocean on June 16, 2022. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Theoplis Stewart II) WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden will pardon U.S. military veterans who were discharged or convicted under […]
Sailors decorate the mess decks in observance of Pride month aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer. USS Jason Dunham (DDG 109) in the Atlantic Ocean, June 16, 2022. Jason Dunham is operating in the Atlantic Ocean in support of naval operations to maintain maritime stability and security in order to ensure access, deter aggression and […]
Sailors decorate the mess decks in observance of Pride month aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Jason Dunham in the Atlantic Ocean on June 16, 2022. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Theoplis Stewart II) WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden will pardon U.S. military veterans who were discharged or convicted under […]
220616-N-UP745-2011 ATLANTIC OCEAN (June 16, 2022) Sailors decorate the mess decks in observance of Pride month aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Jason Dunham (DDG 109) in the Atlantic Ocean, June 16, 2022. Jason Dunham is operating in the Atlantic Ocean in support of naval operations to maintain maritime stability and security in order […]
By Stephanie Kelly and Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Joe Biden issued a proclamation on Wednesday that would set in motion a process to pardon U.S. veterans convicted by the military for gay sex, which was illegal until the provision was repealed in late 2013. The Biden administration estimates that the proclamation could affect […]
A Kentucky man who received a controversial pardon from then-Gov. Matt Bevin on a state homicide conviction but was later found guilty in federal court in the same murder is trying again to get his conviction overturned. Attorneys for Patrick Baker, 46, filed a motion last week in federal court arguing that his attorneys for […]
Joe Biden has indicated that he will not pardon his son Hunter if he is convicted at his federal gun trial, where the prosecution rested its case on Friday in Delaware and Naomi Biden took the stand in defense of her father. When the US president was asked in an interview with ABC News on […]
President Joe Biden told ABC News in an interview Thursday that he will accept whatever a jury decides in his son Hunter Biden‘s criminal trial and that he will not use his presidential power to pardon him if he’s convicted. Biden made his brief statements on his son’s historic trial in an interview with ABC […]